The Making Others Great Fellow Program
Help others grow and become the best they can be.
Learn the structured method behind conversations that bring out the best in people, at home, in class and at work. Three steps, research insights and simple tools, in 34 short lessons at your own pace, with practice in real conversations.
USD 99One price. Two assessments are included at no extra cost, and sold separately they cost USD 60 (ACE Preferences) and USD 39 (Making Others Great Assessment). The program, a workbook and your certificate are part of the same price.
EUR 89
Your pace
Self-paced, 34 short lessons
Your time
About 6 to 8 hours in total, with practice
Your practice
Real conversations with people you choose
Your workbook
Prompts and worksheets to print
Your title
Making Others Great Fellow
After this course, you can
Hold the conversation that helps someone move forward.
Run a five-minute growth conversation
Open with one question, listen, and close with a first step, in a rhythm that fits a full calendar.
Find what matters behind “Fine”
Receive the first answer warmly, wait, and follow up in the other person's own words.
Agree on a first step with a date
Turn an idea into a small action, and follow up so it keeps moving.
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The idea
Great people help others become great.
“Before you become a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
Former CEO, General Electric
Helping others grow sits at the heart of leading, teaching and parenting. People who grow often take on more, solve more on their own and help others grow in turn. In a full calendar it is also often the first thing to slip, and that is where a clear method makes the difference.
This is a skill, and you can learn it. The Fellow program brings it together in one place: how people learn, how they grow and how you can support them, starting with yourself. You first learn how you learn, then how to help others, so that your questions open up the conversation and spark the other person's own ideas.
What you will be able to do
Bring out the best in the people around you.
Listen for what matters
Hear what the other person truly wants to talk about, and give it the room it needs.
Ask questions that open doors
Help people think things through and discover ideas of their own.
Turn ideas into first steps
Move from a good conversation to a small step with a date, and watch confidence grow.
Choose your approach
Know when to ask, when to share and when to tell, and widen your range as a person who develops others.
Who it is for
For people who help others grow.
Parents
Your teenager says “Fine” and heads to their room. Learn what keeps a conversation going and gives your child room to find their own way.
Teachers
Understand what makes learning stick, and bring simple questions into your classroom that help students own their progress.
Leaders
Your best people want to grow, and your calendar is full. Build a five-minute weekly conversation that develops them and builds their ability to solve problems on their own.
Coaches and mentors
A clear method and simple tools to sharpen your conversations between sessions.
The method
The ACE it! Method: three steps, backed by insights and tools.
ACE it! is the method behind the program, a clear way to help someone move forward. Three steps show you what to do. Insights from research show you why it works. Simple tools help you apply it, often the same day.
Step 1 · Address
Understand what matters
Listen first. The other person names what is on their mind, and you make sure you have understood.
Step 2 · Create
Find ideas together
Their ideas come first. Yours join them as one option among several.
Step 3 · Execute
Agree on a first step
A small step with a date turns an idea into action, and a follow-up keeps it moving.
Insights
Why it works
What research on learning, change and coaching has found, in plain words: how adults learn, what supports change and how to build on it. You meet the insights in Parts 2, 4 and 6.
Tools
How you use it
Simple instruments such as the Best Work Tool, the Arrow of Success and Small Greats. Each one makes the method concrete, and you can often use it the same day.
How it works
Learn by doing, at your own pace.
After each of Parts 2 to 8 you try what you learned in a real conversation with someone you choose, and then you look back at what you noticed.
Learn at your own pace
Every lesson comes as clear text. Start today, pause when life calls and continue where you stopped. Your progress is saved.
Two assessments included
ACE Preferences shows your preferences across the three phases of success: Address, Create and Execute. Most people have one or two, and you can work with them on purpose or step out of them when it counts. That can change the outcome in many situations. The Making Others Great Assessment shows how you like to develop others, on eight axes. Both are included at no extra cost, and you use the results in Parts 3 and 8. Sold separately, they cost USD 60 (ACE Preferences) and USD 39 (Making Others Great Assessment).
A workbook for every part
Reflection prompts, worksheets and templates follow the course part by part. Print the workbook or save it as a PDF, and write your answers by hand.
Check what you know
Short self-tests after each lesson show you where you stand. A final test of 20 questions completes the program: you pass with 14 right, and you can retake it as often as you like.
Practice in real conversations
12 practice cases in Parts 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 let you try out your words in realistic scenes, and Parts 2 to 8 each end with a practice in a real conversation with a person of your choice about a matter that is real for you. That is where the program takes hold.
What you will learn
Nine parts, one path.
You start with yourself, then you learn to help others. Each lesson takes 3 to 8 minutes, and the practice around it is up to you. Open a part to see what is inside.
Start with yourself
1Orientation3 lessons
How the program works and your two assessments. You also follow a complete conversation, so you know early what you are practicing toward.
2How people learn and change7 lessons
Insights. The science of learning and change in plain words: how adults learn, what supports learning and how to build on it, and your own learning curve. The part ends with a short listening practice with a person.
3How you learn, work and develop others2 lessons
Your ACE Preferences show which phases of success come easily to you and how to use that on purpose. Your Making Others Great Assessment shows how you like to develop others, on eight axes with two valuable poles each, and what that means for the people around you.
4Your strengths3 lessons
Insights and tools. What moves people, how to find and build on your strengths, and the Best Work Tool, which turns three moments of your best work into patterns you can use.
Your method and tools
5ACE it!4 lessons
The method. The three steps, Address, Create and Execute, one lesson at a time. You apply them to a matter of your own.
6Tools and science4 lessons
Tools and insights. Use the Arrow of Success to map the matter you are working on, and Small Greats to collect small successes that show how far you have come. Learn what coaching science adds, and when to ask, share or tell. Simple tools you can often use the same day.
Help others grow
7Making Others Great: the three steps4 lessons
The method in practice. You take Address, Create and Execute into real conversations: what matters to the other person, which ideas they have, and what their first small step is, and when. You practice each step with a person of your choice.
8Making Others Great: in practice4 lessons
Recognize how others like to be supported, notice your own part in a conversation, and build a weekly rhythm of five minutes. Bring it home, to peers and to the people you lead.
9Finish and get your certificate3 lessons
Look back, choose where you go next, take the final test and receive your certificate.
A free sample from Lesson 7.2
What happens in fifteen seconds of silence.
Maria has been with the company for three years. She is competent, reliable and appreciated. For some months she has seemed stuck. Her manager Thomas invites her to a conversation.
“How are things going for you right now?” he asks. “Fine, actually. All good.” Thomas waits. The silence stretches: ten seconds, fifteen. Then Maria says, “Well, if I'm honest, I'm not sure where all of this is going.”
From Lesson 7.2, “Address: Understand what matters”
Two small habits make the difference. First, receive the first answer warmly and wait, because “All good” is often not the whole picture. Second, ask follow-up questions in the other person's words. Thomas asks, “What do you mean by ‘where this is going’?” One question, then wait.
What Thomas does in those fifteen seconds is a skill. You can learn it, and you can practice it in a safe place until it is yours.
Your title
Pass the final test and receive your Making Others Great Fellow certificate.
Your Making Others Great Fellow certificate from the Autoris Leadership Institute confirms that you passed the final test. It carries a number and arrives by email. Practice in real conversations is recommended and prepares you well for the test.
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Who is behind the program
Built on more than 25 years of work with leaders and coaches.
The Making Others Great Fellow Program was developed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Ehrhardt, founder of the Autoris Leadership Institute and author of the book Making Others Great (Autoris Press). It draws on adult learning research, coaching science and the ACE it! Method, which Autoris has refined with leaders and coaches around the world.
Your course materials and your workbook stay with you after the final test, so you can keep practicing.
We also offer
Want to practice live, with feedback?
The Fellow program is a self-paced online course that gives you the foundation. We also offer the Making Others Great Master Program, a live online program in which you practice with a learning team, work on your own cases and receive supervision and feedback. Many continue with the Master Program.
Self-paced online course
Fellow Program
EUR 89
- Format
- 34 short lessons, at your own pace
- Time
- About 6 to 8 hours in total
- Practice
- In real conversations with people you choose
- Feedback
- Self-tests and a final test
- Title
- Earn the title Making Others Great Fellow
Live online program
Master Program
- Format
- Ten live online sessions with a cohort
- Time
- Over about five months, on set dates
- Practice
- With a learning team, on your own cases
- Feedback
- Supervision and feedback in the live sessions
- Title
- Earn the title Making Others Great Master
- Included
- Our signature assessments and 10+ coaching tools
Coaches and practitioners who want to run Autoris assessments with their clients can continue after the Fellow program with the Autoris Assessment Practitioner course.
Questions
Good to know.
How long does it take to finish the program and become a Making Others Great Fellow?
The program has 34 lessons of 3 to 8 minutes each, about 2 hours and 30 minutes of lessons in total. With the self-tests and the practice conversations, plan on 6 to 8 hours. You set the pace, a few lessons at a time.
What is included in the USD 99 for the Making Others Great Fellow Program?
USD 99 covers all 34 lessons in text, two assessments at no extra cost (sold separately, ACE Preferences costs USD 60 and the Making Others Great Assessment costs USD 39), the workbook, the self-tests, the final test and your certificate. The program stands on its own, and the book Making Others Great (Autoris Press) makes a good companion if you would like to go deeper.
What is the ACE it! Method, and what are its three steps, insights and tools?
The method is ACE it!, a clear way to help someone grow. Its three steps are Address, Create and Execute: understand what matters, find ideas together and agree on a small first step with a date. The insights are what research on learning, change and coaching has found. The tools are simple instruments, such as the Best Work Tool and the Arrow of Success, that make the method concrete.
What is the ACE Preferences assessment in the Fellow Program?
ACE Preferences shows your preferences across the three phases of success: Address, Create and Execute. Most people have one or two. Knowing them helps you work with them on purpose, and step out of them when a situation calls for another phase. That can change the outcome in many situations. It takes about five minutes, and you read it closely in Lesson 3.1.
What is the Making Others Great Assessment in the Fellow Program?
The Making Others Great Assessment shows how you like to develop others, on eight axes such as Telling and Asking or Supporting and Challenging. Both poles of every axis have value, and the report helps you widen your range. You take it at the start and read it closely in Lesson 3.2. The optional 360 view, in which at least five people answer the same statements about you, is available separately.
How good does my English need to be to take the Making Others Great Fellow Program?
The texts use plain, clear English.
What does it mean to be a Making Others Great Fellow, and what do I receive?
You earn the title by passing the final test. Your certificate comes from the Autoris Leadership Institute and carries a number. It arrives by email and sits in My Autoris, and your course materials and your workbook stay available to you, so you can keep practicing.
Who do I practice with in the Making Others Great Fellow Program?
Parts 2 to 8 each end with a practice you try in a real situation, often a conversation with a person of your choice: a friend, a colleague or a family member. You do not need to arrange anyone before you start. When you write about other people in your workbook, use first names or initials.
Where do I enter my access code for the Making Others Great Fellow Program?
Enter it on the access code page. It takes you straight to your enrollment.
Can my team take the Making Others Great Fellow Program together?
Yes. Special rates are available. Book a call if you want this for your team or organization.
Where can I practice live with feedback after the Fellow Program?
The Making Others Great Master Program is a live online program and the next level after the Fellow program. In ten live sessions you practice on your own cases with a learning team, receive supervision and feedback, and earn the title Making Others Great Master. Ati Help is on every page to answer your questions.
Ready to help others become their best?
Learn the method, practice in real conversations and earn your title.
USD 99
EUR 89
Includes two assessments at no extra cost.
Start the program Have an access code?Prefer a live online program with supervision and feedback? Earn the title Making Others Great Master in the Master Program.